This GIF animation of Total Solar Eclipse 2010 is made of one picture (img_6690) shot by the author a short time after 2nd contact by a Canon EOS 40D camera with a 500 mm ^f/_6.3 mirror lens.

Processing:
The picture of this animation has ¹/₈ resolution. It is cropped to 2160x1624 pixels (in full resolution, i.e. 270x203 pixels in ¹/₈ resolution) with black disk of moon appearing roughly centered.
Afterwards 95 (!) versions of this picture were produced, each with different parameters of the sigmoidal contrast function (). They reflect a broad range of contrast, i.e. You'll see all nuances between the very bright chromosphere and prominences and the dimmest outskirts of the outer corona.
Then a GIF animation of this 95 versions of img_6690 was made, running forth and back, i.e. 190 frames.
The built-in delay between frames is 100 ms which gives a maximum frame rate of 10 pictures/sec (depending on Your browser and computer).

Legend:
Here (on this page) a downgraded version (270x203 pixels, i.e. ¹/₈ of full resolution, filesize ~5.2 MB) is displayed as a "thumbnail" to save bandwidth and to speed-up the loading of this page. The actual visible size may be shrunk or blown-up - depending on width of Your browser window (size is set to 60% of window width).

Howto:
Click to image for viewing the ¹/₈ resolution version (size is ~5.2 MB with frame size of 270x203 pixels) !
Click HERE for viewing the half resolution version (size is ~84 MB with frame size of 1080x810 pixels) in an extra browser window - may take some time to download... !
After the film has completed one whole loop and is starting over to the beginning again You may save it to Your hard disk because now it's already in Your browser's local cache. For saving to disk, please follow the procedures of Your favourite browser.
For viewing of downloaded film file You may use xanim or mplayer on Linux or other Unix-like systems. I'm sorry, I can't give You some advise for MAC or Winblow$ systems.